The Character Club:: It's Time to Power Up!

By Joshua P Cole and Scott M Nista

Discover how a super computer named Query created “The Character Club” of superheroes at Hillview Elementary to be leaders and use teamwork with character traits and social emotional learning skills at their school. Solve the mystery of how these seven students were empowered to help improve the abilities of others to make their scho

• Language: English
• Publisher: A New Angle
• Release date: Jun 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9780692806876

Joshua P Cole

Joshua P. Cole, Ph.D. began teaching in Detroit Public Schools and is currently the principal at Ecoff Elementary (A Social Emotional Learning School) in Chesterfield County, Virginia. He received the Milken National Educator Award for Educational Excellence and earned his doctorate from Virginia Commonwealth University. Joshua founded A NEW Angle to help educators create equity in education with a NEW approach to leveraging school success.

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Chapter 1

A Mystery at Hillview

Like other schools, Hillview Elementary is home to students who have great powers. All students have the ability to be their very best, but some students have lost the powers that make them strong inside. Such powers should be found in their hearts and minds. These powers give students inner character strengths and the ability to be proud of who they are as a person.

Some students stopped believing in themselves and gave up on their goals. The students at Hillview needed help to become their very best again. Their teachers, families, and friends tried to help, but nothing worked until something very special happened…

One night, out of a cloudless sky, a powerful thunderstorm began right above Hillview Elementary School. ZZZAP!

Lightning struck Hillview, and the electricity from that bolt traveled all the way to a laptop computer in the school’s storage room. The screen popped open and lit up as bright as the lightning that brought it to life! The jolt of electricity disconnected the computer from the wall outlet, and it fell into a box of parts. A few seconds later, the computer had arms, wheels, and a face! Then it began to talk!

Zoom-ziggity-ziggity-zoom! Query had a blast scooting around the school all night long. This regular laptop had transformed into a super computer with superpowers!

The next day, when no one was looking, Query quickly transformed back into a laptop computer. None of the students, teachers, custodians, or even the principal knew Query existed.

Looking like a regular computer, Query secretly listened to everyone talking and found out that many kids were not living up to their full potential. Query could tell many students needed help finding their abilities to become powerful again. Query made a list